# intellego
## Latin
### Alternative forms

* intelligō

### Etymology

From inter (“between”) +‎ legō (“to select”), or from inter- +‎ Proto-Italic *legō (“to care”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /inˈtel.le.ɡoː/, [ɪn̪ˈt̪ɛlːʲɛɡoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /inˈtel.le.ɡo/, [in̪ˈt̪ɛlːeɡo]

### Verb

intellegō (present infinitive intellegere, perfect active intellēxī, supine intellēctum); third conjugation
* to understand, comprehend, realize, come to know
    Synonym: tongeō
** 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations‎:, 1.2
    O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?
       Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives!
* to perceive, discern, see, observe, recognise; feel, notice
    Synonyms: agnōscō, cognōscō, inveniō, sentiō, cōnsciō, sapiō, sciō, nōscō, scīscō, percipiō, discernō, tongeō, cernō, audiō
    Antonyms: ignōrō, nesciō

#### Conjugation

* Note: Perfect subjunctive sometimes of the form intellēg... rather than intellēx...
* Additional forms are:
** indicative perfect: intellēxtī (instead of intellēxistī)
** indicative perfect: intellēgit (instead of intellēxit)
** conjunctive perfect: intellēgerint (instead of intellēxerint)
** conjunctive pluperfect: intellēxēs (instead of intellēxissēs)

#### Derived terms

* intellēctiō
* intellēctīvus
* intellēctor
* intellēctus
* intellegēns
* intellegenter
* intellegentia
* intelligibilis

#### Related terms

* allegō
* colligō
* dīligō
* ēligō
* intellēctuālis
* intellēctuālitās
* legō
* neglegō
* perlegō
* praelegō
* relegō
* sēligō
* sublegō

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: ntsileg, ntsilegu, ntsãleg, ntsãlegu
** Istro-Romanian: anțeleg
** Megleno-Romanian: ạnțileg
** Romanian: înțelege
** → Proto-Albanian: *intellegɔnjœ
*** Old Albanian: ëndiglonj
**** Albanian: dëgjoj, digjoj — Tosk, ndëgjoj, ndëgoj, dëlgoj, dëlgonj, diligonj, ngjoj — dialectal, ndigoj, ngoj — Kosovo, endiglo — Cham, ëndiglonj — Buzuku
* Italo-Western Romance:
** Old French: entelgir (10th c. Fragment de Valenciennes), entillier, antillier (Judeo-French)
*** Middle French: entiller
** Romansch: encleger, entelgir, antalir, incleger
** → Basque: indelgatu, entelegatu
* Learned borrowings:
** → Portuguese: inteligir
** → Spanish: inteligir

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ĭntĕllĕgĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 739

### Further reading

* “intellego”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “intellego”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* intellego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. not to understand a single word: verbum prorsus nullum intellegere what do we understand by 'a wise man': quem intellegimus sapientem? what do we mean by 'virtue': quae intellegitur virtus that is self-evident, goes without saying: hoc facile intellegi potest that is self-evident, goes without saying: hoc per se intellegitur from this it appears, is apparent: ex quo intellegitur or intellegi potest, debet